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Presenting a picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people, this book describes how these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to death, including childhood, marriage, work, sex, food, illness, religion, and the natural world. It describes how they encountered the basic material facts of their lives.

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This comprehensive volume tells the rarely recounted stories of the numerous foreign air forces that supported the German Luftwaffe as part of the Axis' quest to dominate the European and Pacific theaters-a highly compelling and often overlooked chapter of World War II history.

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Introduces readers to an Iran that few people see, meeting opium-smoking clerics, women cab drivers and sartorially challenged presidential officials, among others. This work reveals a country where both t-shirt wearing teenagers and religious martyrs express pride in their Persian origins, that is deeply religious yet highly cosmopolitan.

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How did a bedraggled band of nomads manage to evolve into a Mesoamerican superpower in such a brief time This volume looks at the essential elements in the Aztecs' rise, fall, and enduring influence.

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James Charles Roy leads a group of jaded American tourists on a historical tour of the Emerald Isle they only thought they knew

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This book describes how Italy elaborated a master narrative of the Second World War that evades the faults of Mussolini's fascist war by attributing all responsibility on the shoulders of the German ally

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This volume offers new perspectives on the history of the Byzantine Balkans and beyondregions that lived for centuries under the long shadow of Constantinopleas well as unique insights into the complex world of late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe during a period of catastrophe.

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This volume offers new perspectives on the history of the Byzantine Balkans and beyondregions that lived for centuries under the long shadow of Constantinopleas well as unique insights into the complex world of late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe during a period of catastrophe.

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This study examines the Bangladesh Liberation War and the Sheikh Mujib regime. It places the emergence of Bangladesh within the broader historical context of the partition of British India in 1947, analyzes various political and economic aspects of Mujibs rule, and argues that Mujibs assassination continues to divide the nation.

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For the best part of three centuries the 'corsairs' or pirates from the 'Barbary' coasts of North Africa dominated the Western and Central Mediterranean. This book examines their development and their style of fighting, chronicles their achievements and failures, illustrates their ships, and explains why they were so feared and effective.

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A science reporter for The Wall Street Journal describes an epidemic of bubonic plague that erupted in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, first in 1900 and then five years later, and the efforts of scientists Joseph Kinyoun, Dr. Rupert Blue, and Blue's aide Colby Rucker to contain the disease, disco

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The story of one middle-class family, the Rezas, shopkeepers in Lahore's ancient Anarkali Bazaar, caught in the great struggles that have rippled through Pakistan " compellingly narrated by a young Pakistani-American scholar and diplomat who has observed the traumas of the region at first hand.

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This work explores the background and first two years of the First Carlist War--a conflict that pitted conservative northern peasants against the liberal Madrid government in the largest and most sustained case of armed peasant resistance to modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library use

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The titanic clash of wills between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs in the 1960s and how their dueling perspectives helped to define contemporary urban life

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This is a full bibliography of one of the most important campaigns of the American Civil War--the Maryland Campaign and the bloody Battle of Antietam. The body of the volume is devoted to resources covering the battle and its leaders, including general histories and biographies of various general officers.

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A description of the Battle of Ap Bac, placing it in the larger context of the Vietnam War. The author demonstrates that the importance of this battle of 1963 lies in American policymakers' perception of it as unimportant. There are detailed supporting maps.

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Analyzing the history and memory of migrant journeys, covering not only the response of politicians and the public but also literary and artistic representations, then and now, Kushner's volume sheds new light on the nature and construction of Britishness from the early modern era onwards. -- .